Re: Memory allocation troubles

[Tristan Van Berkom <tristan van berkom gmail com>]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:27:22 +0200, Olaf FrÄczyk <olaf cbk poznan pl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I write an application that requires much memory to run.
> It is impossible to assume that every time I ask for memory I'll get it.
> The application creates many threads (up to several hundreds) each
> thread taking about 0,6 MB.
> And when I am out of memory I could just wait for some threads to
> finish, and try again.
> Aborting program is not an option, because before dying I need to clean
> things up.

Hmmm, 
    I fullheartedly agree that programs should be able to run in OOM
situations or at least handle them nicely, unfortunatly we do not represent
a unified front to back up that notion.

You can use g_try_malloc/g_try_realloc but that doesn't change behavior
in fundimental situations such as `g_object_new'.

Note that this behaviour would be very hard to change because most
gtk+ applications depend on that behaviour (and would be segfaulting
if that changed).

Cheers,
                                                -Tristan